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Meaning of "guidewires"

Guidewires are thin and flexible wires used in medical procedures to guide and place catheters in the body
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No use of two individual guidewires is thus required.
The present invention relates to intravascular guidewires.
Lubricious coatings on guidewires provide a number of benefits.
One limitation relates to controllability of micro guidewires.
Devices such as deflectable guidewires are commercially available.
Soft guidewires are recommended rather than support guidewires.
These tubes often have guidewires to facilitate insertion.
Guidewires are generally known in the art.
This invention relates to guidewires used in medical procedures.
Handing supplies to the physician such as catheters or guidewires.
Medical guidewires and parts and fittings therefor.
The material properties of the guidewires may differ.
Other known guidewires employ microcatheters to stabilize guidewires.
For a disclosure of problematic crossed guidewires.
Thicker guidewires possess increased stiffness.

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Other authors have reported recanalization of obstructions using rigid guidewires.
Steerable guidewires are known in the art.
There was a question about perforation and dissections related to stiff guidewires.
A wide variety of guidewires may be used.
Guidewires having such a distal end are conventional in the art.
Physicians often use guidewires and catheters in combination.
Guidewires come in a range of sizes in addition to those discussed above.
A wide variety of guidewires are well known in the prior art.
Guidewires having improved mechanical strength and electromagnetic shielding.
Examples of different types of guidewires were presented and their characteristics were discussed.
Guidewires are generally elongate structures for use in medical procedures.
Other lumens are provided for passage of guidewires and instruments therethrough.
Two kinds of guidewires were produced based on the above configuration.
This causes difficulty in introducing catheters or guidewires through the tubing.
The application of guidewires is also not limited to vascular interventions.
Such coatings have generally only been applied to polymer jacketed guidewires.
Heretofore numerous guidewires have been proposed with radiopaque markers.
These devices are devoid of central orifices through which guidewires could be inserted.
Guiding guidewires and catheters into the left heart.
The wire lumen has a port for use with appropriate neurovascular guidewires.
Guidewires were introduced and the fractures were fixed using cannulated screws.
The separated lumens prevent the guidewires from crossing and becoming entangled.
Said guidewires advantageously comprise an elastically flexible distal end portion.
Many medical applications and specific designs of guidewires have been for cardiovascular use.
Such guidewires typically are involved in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedures.
Shown are the proximal ends of three guidewires projecting from the proximal hub assembly.
Such guidewires are capable in guiding catheters through much of the vascular system.
Filters mounted to the distal end of guidewires have been proposed for intravascular blood filtration.
Guidewires are also typically radiopaque to allow monitoring of their position through standard fluoroscopic techniques.
This is true considering that guidewires are more easily maneuvered than are braided catheters.
Guidewires were then inserted through the needles and driven into the pedicles using a slide hammer.
Typical delivery systems incorporate guidewires that are contained or captured within the delivery catheter.
The introducer may have a housing having input openings through which the guidewires can be inserted.
Medical guidewires are devices that can be navigated through narrow passages in the body.
Guide elements of the present inventions may include guidewires and other types of filaments.

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